About

I care about
leverage.

Portrait of Istrati

I build growth systems for service businesses. That means the ads, the search visibility, the reviews, the email follow-up, and the tracking that ties it all together, so growth becomes steady instead of hit-or-miss.

I didn't come up through marketing alone. Before I built ad accounts, I ran operations, managed teams, owned a business, and coordinated projects across different industries. That shaped how I see marketing. I don't see separate channels. I see one system: fix the part that's actually holding you back and everything improves. Pour money into a broken system and nothing does.

For the last few years I worked inside a growth agency, side by side with business owners and marketing leads across many industries: finding the real problem, making the plan, and doing the work. I've been in enough of these to know most growth problems aren't really about one channel. They're about the system underneath. That's what I build full-time now.

What I believe
  • - Having run real operations is my edge. Most marketers have never actually run a business.
  • - AI is a genuine speed boost. Used well, it turns weeks into days. But it still needs a human who understands the business.
  • - The businesses that grow fastest build the right foundation before they feel ready for it.
  • - Your reputation grows like savings with interest. Build it on purpose, or watch competitors build theirs instead.
  • - If you're not tracking results, the strategy is just a guess. I fix the tracking before I touch the ad budget.
What I'm Building

I run my work under my company, ISTRATI Media. Alongside client projects, I build and operate my own growth brands, starting with BookedReno, which books renovation jobs for contractors across Ontario and Quebec. I write down what I learn along the way in the Thinking section, because most of it never gets written down anywhere useful.